Corbin v. State

The defendant, Claude Corbin, was indicted for the unlawful possession of dynamite. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve from two to five years in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $2000. He made a motion for a new trial based upon the general grounds and eight special grounds. The court overruled the motion and the defendant excepted.

1. The defendant contends that the following testimony of the witness Robert H. Cording: “It would take a great deal of force or a terrific explosion' to move a fifteen hundred pound meter a distance of three inches,” was erroneously admitted in…